Gas-burner



Patented May 9, |899.

' w. c. HUMAN.

G A S B U R N E R (Appction filed Oct. 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

F /EL l n l.

Ullllllllillllllllll Illlllilllllllllllllllll WITNESS can,

TTBNEY THE Nurws PETERS ca, woraumo.. WASHINGTGN. u. c.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.A

WILLIAM C. IIOMAN, OF MERIDEN,` CONNECTICUT, 4AssIeIIOR To THE EDwARD MILLER a COMPANY, OF CONNECTICUT.

GAS-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming para of Lei-.ters Patent No. 624,494,61atea May- 9, 1899. Application filed October 28, 1898. Serial No. 694,794. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: l

Beit known thatAI, VILLIAM C. HOMA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Meriden, New Haven county, Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gas-Burners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in gasfburners, and is especially adapted to that class of burners in which air is mixed with a vapor, and my apparatus is to provide an improved air-regulating device.

In the preferred embodiment of my construction, Figure l represents a side elevation of a burnerprovided with my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view thereof.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the gallery of a gas-burner, commonly known as an incandescent gas burner, which is provided with a InixinglchamberB, into which extends a gas supply pipe C, screwed onto the end of a nipple D and having air-inlets E therein. Extending down Outside of and protecting and serving to direct air to these air-inlets is a shield or skirt F, preferably resting on a bead in the supply-pipe, as shown, and also preferably connected with the gallery. All of these parts are preferably normally fixed.

Over the gas-supply pipe fits a sleeve G, which has apertures I-I therein registering when in the proper position with the air-inlets E. This sleeve has a lateral projection therefrom to operate the same and thereby regulate the amount of air admitted through the air-inlets, which lateral projection in the present embodiment is in thefo'rm of a ring having apertures L for the admission of air.

This ring is greater in its diameter than the diameter of the shield F, and therefore extends outside of the same, so that it can be easily manipulated, and in the present embodimentis turned up, so as to inclose the bottom of the shield.

It will be obvious that many modifications may be made in` the device herein disclosed without departing from the spirit of 'my invention.

What I claimis- In a gas-burner in combination a screwthreaded nipple, a supplyepipe havinga screwthreaded lower end and adapted to screw upon said nipple, said supply-pipe having an air-inlet through one side of the same, a stop on said supply-pipe above said inlet, a burnergallery placed over said supply-pipe and supported by said stop, a petticoat-shield outside of said supply-pipe,.open at its lower end, at its upper end supported on and fixed to said supply-pipe and extending downwardly over said air-inlet opening, said shield having a bead at its lower portion, a rotatable sleeve resting upon said nipple and closely ttingthe outside of said supply-pipe below said stop and having an air-inlet therein registering with said other air-inlet, a ring extending laterally from said sleeve, said ring being connected therewith and located below the airinlet opening therein and also extending up outside of said shield and fitting said bead.

Signed at Meriden, Connecticut, this 25th day of October, 1898.

WILLIAM C. HOMAN.

Witnesses:

ALFRED DUNLOP, CHAs. E. HOMAN. 

